An incident over the weekend has left Kirk Dwyer a bit perplexed over why anyone would leave a live venomous snake at his front door. Dwyer, who owns Chancy’s Grill and Shake in Moran, spoke…

ATCHISON — The Iola High softball team’s season ended at the Class 4A Regional championship game against Fort Scott in Atchison on Wednesday.  The Mustangs (6-14) got around Atchison in game one with a couple…

FORT SCOTT — Five Iola High golfers matched up in Fort Scott on Monday.  The event was scheduled following Iola’s JV golf meet at Anderson County being postponed.  Iola took home seventh place as a…

Crews from 5M Restoration of Fort Scott have been hard at work this month reinforcing the exterior of the Brooklyn Park building at 220 South St. in Iola. The bricks on the north wall had…

The Veterans Administration is planning to build a clinic in Iola sometime in the next few years, provided it can find a location. The VA wants to open a new Community-Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC) at…

FORT SCOTT — Native son Gordon Parks will be celebrated this weekend at the 19th Annual Gordon Parks Celebration. Parks was a noted photographer, writer, musician and filmmaker. Parks is best known for his book…

CHANUTE — The Iola High School tennis team continued its tradition of taking its annual Chanute Park caterpillar picture on Thursday evening.  The Mustangs competed in the Chanute pool play tournament and finished fourth overall…

A three-city, two-wheeled celebration is in the works Saturday to mark the unveiling of a new bike route through southeast Kansas. Cyclists will gather at Iola and Pittsburg Saturday morning for ribbon cuttings at each…

FORT SCOTT -— The Iola Middle School Mustangs football teams got rolled over by Fort Scott on Thursday night, dropping their first road games of the season. Seventh Grade Some costly turnovers and penalties doomed…

FORT SCOTT — Emergency crews battled overnight Monday into Tuesday morning to fight a fire that devastated Fort Scott’s Mary Queen of Angels Catholic Church. The southeast corner of the structure was engulfed in flames…